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The Teacher of Galilee: A Seer Who Really Did See This guest post was written by anthropologist and longtime-libertarian, Spencer Heath MacCallum. Minor changes to the author's original version were made to punctuation and formatting only. Read the original here: http://explorersfoundation.org/archive/maccallum-spencer-golden-rule.pdf A WAKE-UP CALL FOR CHRISTIAN LIBERTARIANS “How tantalizing,” economist William H. Peterson wrote some years ago, “to find that virtually all the world’s major religions exalt the Golden Rule in one way or another.” He reproduced the different wordings he had read as follows: CHRISTIANITY Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. JUDAISM Do not...

THE HALF HAS NEVER BEEN TOLD: SLAVERY AND THE MAKING OF AMERICAN CAPITALISM INCLUDING BAPTIST’S AFTERWORD https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HXM0R9Q/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 By Ned Netterville AMERICA’S HOLOCAUST After reading Baptist’s book, I’m convinced the most horrendous conditions any group of Americans ever endured was being forced to do back-breaking work as a slave, a “field hand,” on a cotton plantation in the South during the period 1790 to 1860, as often as not ending up being killed (murdered?) by those conditions. Baptist’s book is an excruciating expose of what it was like to endure and often succumb to the horrendous torture inflicted on those slaves...

JESUS NEVER PAID TAXES As was said by an itinerant-Internet preacher: "The Lord Jesus was also the only honest businessman in the world because he paid his taxes." Dear Mr. Preacherman: That is a damn lie. There are lots of honest businessmen, and Jesus never paid his nor anyone else's taxes. Taxation is theft. It is identical in every respect to the felony crime of extortion--except the state immunizes its collectors from prosecution. Paying an extortionist only ensures he will keep at it. The sophistry that denies taxation is theft would never fool Jesus. Especially in the first-century Roman Empire,...

TOM PAINE, NATHAN HALE, PATRICK HENRY & IRWIN SCHIFF? What do these four Americans heroes have in common? They are all courageous American patriots of the highest order. But for raw courage in the face of ravenous enemies, Irwin Schiff stands head and shoulders above the other three. Author James Smith recently posted an article here at Liberty.me on the federal income tax. It is well worth reading. Here is the link to it; Its title is in the address: https://jamessmith.liberty.me/filing-taxes-is-only-slightly-more-preferable-than-prison/ I left a comment on his article. Here it is: Not for all of us. My number one American patriot...

I wrote the following as a comment on an article published on the FEE website titled, "Even Economists Can't Do Their Own Taxes," by Antony Davies and James P. Harrigan. If you truly dig into the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) and the history of taxation and tax laws in America, including the Supreme Court cases pertaining thereto, you will discover two important facts: 1) You cannot possibly be legally liable for the individual income tax (or any of the several other employment taxes) because the Constitution with its Bill of Rights precludes the government from levying and collecting an income...

Commenting on the decline of true liberalism, libertarian giant Ralph Raico wrote the following shortly before he recently passed away, “In America, the liberal country par excellence, the chief aim [of classical liberals] was to fend off incursions of government power pushed by Alexander Hamilton and his centralizing successors…” Profound and deleterious consequences of the actions of that damn taxaholic continue to haunt Americans to this day. As America’s first Secretary of the Treasury, Hamilton’s policy of taxing whiskey sparked the so-called Whiskey Rebellion. “The tax was resisted by farmers in the western frontier regions who were long accustomed to...

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT INCOME TAXATION I first want to declare that I don’t believe in the Constitution. I am with Lysander Spooner on that score. It confers no legitimate authority on the federal government. Furthermore, many of its intended (or pretended) benefits have been lost to congressional encroachment and courts’ misinterpretations. Nevertheless, it is still regarded as “the supreme law of the land,” by most Americans, with adoring lip service paid to it by virtually every lawyer and politician. Nor do I believe taxation is ever legit. It is extortion. No individual has a rightful authority to...

The following is an excerpt from a conversation I’ve been having with a tax lawyer/CPA regarding the Wikipedia “article” on a famous tax protester and libertarian, Irwin Schiff. Here is the Schiff article: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irwin_Schiff) When I tried as a Wiki editor to add some insight from my personal knowledge of Irwin to the Schiff article, a tax lawyer-CPA who goes by the name of Famspear on the Web and is also a prolific Wiki editor objected to my edit for not conforming to Wikipedia’s rules for creating and editing articles. When such disagreements occur between two editors, a “User talk...

GERMANS 13:1-7 My dear Jewish brothers and sisters, Let every person be subject to Hitler and the governing Nazi authorities; for there is no authority except from God, and the Nazi authorities that exist have been instituted by God. Whoever resists Nazi authority resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For the Nazi rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Do you wish to have no fear of the Nazi authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive the Nazi's approval, for Hitler is God’s servant for your good....

I heard a lot of noise and looked over at the stove where a red tea kettle appeared to be fiercely boiling such that I feared it would explode. I ran to shut off the burner, but no burner was lit. I lifted the top off the kettle thinking to release the pressure. Peering inside I was amazed to see a gaggle of very little people screaming and shouting and hurling invectives and anything handy at each other. It wasn’t hard to discern even amidst all that turmoil that the little combatants were arguing and fighting over the matter of...

If I had the time, I could cite literally dozens of recognized Christian scholars who have said Jesus paid taxes, pointing to the Gospel of Matthew, Ch. 17, verses 24-27, and the remarkable events recounted therein as proof. Here is the text of that passage from the King James Version of the Bible. And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute? He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings...

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities; for there is no authority except from God, and those authorities that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists authority resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Do you wish to have no fear of the authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive its approval; for it is God’s servant for your good. But if you do what is wrong, you should be afraid, for the authority[ does not...

THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST ACCORDING TO NED (Subtitle: Jesus onTaxes and Tax Collectors) by Ned Netterville This is a condensation of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke (the so-called synoptic gospels) focusing on what Jesus said or did pertinent to taxes and tax collectors. The author has added some material where understanding requires elaboration that is missing from the Gospels. Ned’s reconstructed material logically follows from the character of Jesus as fully developed in all four Gospels. Why focus on taxes and those who collect them? Because Jesus clearly did. The words “tax(es)” and/or “tax collector(s)”...

Jesus’ Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37) is often pointed to by progressives as justification for government social-welfare programs and spending. Of course Jesus’ Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37) used his own resources exclusively to succor the poor stranger he found beaten and robbed and left to die along the road from Jerusalem to Jericho. Rather than supporting government programs, the Parable speaks volumes against them and their dishonest and dishonorable methodology. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him. The next day he took out two denarii and gave them...

Excerpts from a forthcoming ebook by the same title: INTRODUCTION This essay contains three hypotheses. The primary thesis is: Contrary to what most people have been taught by church and government leaders, Jesus did not condone taxation nor endorse the concept of nation-states with human rulers when he said “render unto Caesar therefore the things which are Caesar’s.” If we succeed in persuading readers of that one point, and we are confident all who come with an open mind will be persuaded, our research, writing and prayers will be vindicated. The second hypothesis is this: Jesus taught and lived by principles...

President Obama, Treasury Secretary Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke, as well as most politicians and many college professors, adhere to the economic theories of John Maynard Keynes, and champion policies prescribed by those theories. Keynes’ economic theories were published in his magnum opus, the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money in 1936. Nobel-prize winner, tenured Princeton professor, and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is Keynes’ best known disciple in America today. Keynesianism, however, is not economics; it’s a religious cult. The mantras of Keynesian cultists are monetary inflation and government spending. Keynes once wrote that an increase...

"The question put to Jesus was a trap. Either a yes or no answer would have gotten Jesus in trouble. ‘Yes’ would have discredited him with those who found the imperial domination system reprehensible and unacceptable. ‘No’ would have made him subject to arrest for sedition.”--Marcus Borg (New-Testament Scholar) Mr. Borg, in this regard you are surely mistaken. The question was indeed a trap, but only because the questioners were confident Jesus would condemn Caesar's tribute tax, which would give them cause to hand him over to Pilate as a tax resister and certain death. This is made explicit...